About Me

I was a reporter and columnist for 40 years for a chain of newspapers in the suburbs of Chicago. I'm a military veteran having served in the United States Army Combat Engineers (Cpl. E-4) and a Korean War veteran with an Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America

Thursday, January 10, 2013

FOX NEWS is totally freaking out over the possibility President
Obama may issue a Presidential Executive Order coupled with the strict gun
regulation program Vice President Joe Biden is preparing to
release.

FOX NEWS' Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Greta Van Sustern
scrambled as many "legal Eagles" as they could find Wednesday night in a
move designed to sabotage Obama's Presidential Executive Orders.

What is a presidential executive order?

An executive order is a directive by the
President of the United States that has the power of a federal
law. Presidents might issue executive orders to
create committees or organizations like the Peace Corps. In general, though,
Presidents use executive orders to direct and manage how the federal government
operates.

Can executive orders be overturned?Congress
may attempt to overturn an executive order by passing legislation (a bill) that
opposes the order. However, the President can veto that
bill, and Congress would then need to override that veto to pass the bill. Also,
the Supreme Court can declare an
executive order to be unconstitutional.FOX NEWS and a gaggle of lawyers were like little kids whistling in
the dark in a dark forest trying desperately to explain how the 2nd Amendment,
"the right to bear arms," would not be affected by the Presidential Executive
Order if President Obama decides to enact the order.Vice President Joe Biden will be meeting with representatives from
the National Rifle Association (NRA) and anti-gun groups on Thursday as part of
the plans Biden is hammering out on what steps will be taken to stop the mass
murders that have been taking place using military-style firearms and ammunition
that comes in clips that hold up to 100 rounds of ammo. The drastic measures are being taken following the mass murder of 20
first grade students at the Sandy Hook Elementary school by Andy Lanza who used
a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle to kill the children. Law enforcement authorities have reported some of the children were
shot at least 16 times from close range with the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle
using ammo that explodes upon impact. Meanwhile, the NRA is trying to shift the blame for the mass murders
away from guns and blame it on mentally ill people, violent movies and
television shows and games that feature violence. The NRA wants every teacher in America to be armed, but this doesn't
take into account the mass killings that took place in a movie theater or a
college dorm in Virginia. The NRA also has avoided talking about how an adult set fire to his
own home two weeks ago and then called the local fire department and when the
fire department arrived at the scene of the fire the man started firing at them
with a Bushmaster AR-15 semi-automatic rifle like the one used in the Sandy Hook
school massacre killing two firefighters and seriously wounding two others.
It is estimated that in 2012 over 30,000 people were killed by guns
in America. If this were happening in any other civilized society in the world,
the government would call it what it is: an epidemic.